The problem is they abandoned the working class whites that used to vote for them.
They aren’t giving them a reason to vote for them. The war on coal, on lumber, on oil, on steel and so forth - has just hurt Democrats. They seem more interested in catering to radical environmentalists than American families.
They voted against the Keystone Pipeline project. Democrats have said to Americans jobs and the economy isn’t our top priority. Our top priority is global warming!
They still don’t get it.
As Obama's long standing Science and Technology adviser John P. Holdren has crowed: it's about "de-developing" the United States. In a speech to graduate science students, he said that "America can't always expect to be number one." (Holdren and Ehrlich [Population Bomb and other writings] have been joined at the hip for 50 years.) Then toss in John Podesta (GREEN par excellence and Hillary devotee), recently brought in to "help" Obama's struggling agenda.
Oh, and factor in the empowered EPA dictating, non-stop, thousands of regulations to strangle everything that drives the economic engine of the nation - and it is impossible to believe that this would endear the Democratic Party to the union rank and file (even though Obama carved out some relief in job-killing Obamacare for them), or from any thinking, job-seeking person.
Now begins in earnest, the drumbeat in the MSM about the real national security threat being "climate change" and apparently the biggest threat to the nation are those "crazy climate skeptics" (or as they're also called "climate deniers" who must be silenced for the good of the world);that climate disruption is imminent and that the science is "settled."
ISIS?! Not to worry. It's the "extremist right-wing Tea Party activists'" homegrown rejection of the Left that needs to be monitored - that's where the danger lurks. That is what is being taught to students and reported by the state media.
More on the man who has been advising Obama since the start of his first term - John P. Holdren
Affirmative action is reason alone for any white guy to vote against Dems; unfortunately, it is a reason many white girls vote for them for the same thing...
They know exactly what they're doing, they're destroying blue collar jobs that provide a guy a wage that will allow him to raise a family without his wife working. All those wives with free time were a real problem for them when they were first trying to change government education into just another part of their media propaganda machine plus they had way too much influence on their own children.
So, "liberation" to make women free from the tyranny of nature. Free to murder their own children and to work like men have always had to. That leads to fewer women who could have more than one or at most two children.
Add to that the fact that hubby more often than not wouldn't make enough money to live comfortably unless the wife worked and you have the perfect subtle incentive system to put children in the hands of the State as soon as they're potty trained. Which is what they've wanted since the turn of the 20th Century.
JMHo